Free poker in Moscow — online, with players from the city

The game is No-Limit Texas Hold’em. The Temple of Fortune has three stake levels, and every table has 5 or 9 seats and 15 seconds per move:

You buy in for anything from 10 to 200 big blinds. The starting purse of 100,000 debens is plenty for an unhurried first evening at the Scribes’ Table. The hall shows who sits where, so you can join people you know or press “Quick game”. More on tables and dealing: Texas Hold’em in Anubis City. Rusty on what beats what? Check the hand rankings.

Getting colleagues together after work is easiest at a table of your own. On the “Own table” tab a saved character creates a private table; friends join with the code or a link, even as guests, and an empty table closes itself after 5 minutes. Details: play with friends.

Below: how many hands Muscovites played this week, the biggest pot and the best hand at showdown.

The Hall of Seshat runs 75-ball bingo. In AUTO halls the numbers mark themselves and a ball drops every 3 seconds, so you can chat and miss nothing. In MANUAL halls you mark the numbers and press “BINGO!” yourself; a ball comes every 8 seconds and you earn one and a half times the experience — which counts for Moscow too. Rules and prizes: bingo.

The Rotunda of Shai has European roulette with a single zero. There is no spin button: the wheel turns on the table’s own schedule, roughly every half minute, and up to 40 people share one table. That is how Moscow ends up with a favourite number — the one Muscovites bet on most this week; you will find it in the numbers below. Bets and payouts: roulette.

In the malachite Hall of Thoth there is blackjack from a six-deck shoe: five boxes per table, blackjack pays 3 to 2, and the dealer stands on all 17s.

The ranking counts experience earned this week while a player had Moscow as their home city. Poker hands earn it — against AI just as against people — and so do bingo, roulette, blackjack, daily visits and Ra’s Boat. The table shows in-game names only; the game never even asks for your real one.

The same points decide the City of the Week race: a city’s score is the experience of its ten best players that week. Being a big city gives no head start — what counts is ten determined players.

1. Open the game. You can start as a guest with no sign-up; save your character (email and password) to play from any device and receive 500,000 debens as a gift.
2. Open your profile, choose My city and find Moscow — the search understands English and Russian.
3. Decide whether to show your city in your profile and a flag by your name — both are optional. From then on your games count for Moscow.

You can change your city at any time; experience earned before stays with the old one. First steps around the city: how to play. Anubis City is for adults, 18+.